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3 yrs ago
Current So I guess I should've watched Firefly ages ago, huh?
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7 yrs ago
Bleed over my grave, and plunge in the stake. Don't give me a break, when you're on the take.
7 yrs ago
Expanding Horizons Players! Join up with The Reapers of Castletain if you're looking for a group to join!
7 yrs ago
Swearing in other languages besides the mother tongue is ceaselessly amusing.
7 yrs ago
The Second Labour awaits, and I am ready to pursue it. FEAR NOT FELLOW GUILDMEMBERS, I SHALL BRING YOU GLORY ON THAT DAY!

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I like language.

Speak to me.

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In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
@Spriggs27

It's actually about to kick off at the track and field, but yes, Jordan's otherwise occupied atm.
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Jordan Manilow



@Spriggs27@Old Amsterdam@Zelosse@Sailorsadie@RoccanIronclad@Stern Algorithm



Jordan sat from his perch, ass buzzing faintly thanks to the pink-haired boy's efforts. He sincerely hoped the boy would give up, if only so that Jordan could stop feeling his hair stand on end, even more so than usual. He raised an eyebrow at the student down below who in a fit of striking observance, had the gall to label Jordan a hobo. Jordan chewed at his lip, considered, and then nodded at that. After all, she hadn't seen the Shed. None of them had, and hopefully never would. Jordan was fine with his students believing that age-old myth that the teachers lived at school, waking up at the precise time their classes began and going into sleep mode during the holidays. He held his tongue, wondering if any of the students would defend his honour. After all, he'd put down more two-bit tykes of her ilk in his day than he could count on both of his hands and feet, at least. All the same, he started devising comebacks almost by accident, all of them vastly inappropriate and vastly hilarious.

The temperature dropped markedly, and Jordan thought for just a second that the headmaster had come to spectate, before he noted the girl who looked slightly uncomfortable standing next to Felix as the probable source of the chill. That might also be his girlfriend, Jordan thought absently. He felt kind of bored at this point, waiting for more projectiles, or at least a ratcheting up of intensity from his pupils. This level of cold was as likely to affect him as was the static currently tingling against his butt.

Jordan's interest was piqued by the beginnings of a tremor, signalling an earth elementalist, before he saw the beginnings of infighting emerge. One girl started questioning Felix's girlfriend, while the fire user himself began attempting to counteract his girlfriend's powers, which clearly were not properly focused. The end result, while impressive individually, resulted in Manilow leaning back and enjoying the sunshine while a possible threat neutralized itself. These kids were eons away from true teamwork, truly fulfilled potential, and that was why Jordan's enjoyment of the weather could remain only as a façade. His expression was grim, though none of them would see it. They needed to work together, and prevail as a united force, if what was happening to Kano, maybe even to Jordan himself, if that progressed...

A crackling noise broke the silence of Jordan's thoughts and he rolled backward on instinct, coming up in a kneeled position on the bleachers themselves. The edge of which had now been covered over with ice, where he'd been sitting moments before. Perhaps a more talented ice user had decided to take action, or that girlfriend of Felix's had more control than he gave her credit for. Either way, Jordan stood up now and felt the tingling in his feet through his shoes, a faint vibration under which he could feel the current of electricity pulsing. Maybe he was writing his students off too quickly. After all, the current was just as strong here as it was on the bars near the pink-haired boy, and Jordan wagered the current retained its force along the whole of the bleachers. An impressive feat. Not sufficient to subdue their teacher, but notable nonetheless.

Jordan was making to peek over the edge, maybe toss a few taunts, and see to what end the drama below had progressed before he felt a shadow come over him. Looking up, he saw a cloud familiar, or elemental, filled to bursting with rain.

"Fuck." Jordan breathed.

He ran in the other direction, students forgotten as the cloud kept pace with him, the beginnings of rain crackling down on the bleachers. Not for the first or the last time, Jordan cursed water users with all of his worst obscenities. Jordan rapidly approached the end of the bleachers, running out of room and ideas. Desperate, in a way he hadn't expected his students to bring out in him, Jordan skidded to a stop at the bleachers' edge. The cloud came over him, and with it came the rain, a conductor which could increase the electric potential, lower his resistance to devastating or even lethal levels. Jordan's power came fitfully, and then in a flood, all of his will concentrated above him.

It wasn't enough.

Jordan felt his body grow slick with rain, felt the water weakening his resistance, flowing down in moments to meet the bleachers. Jordan waited for pain, burning, and very bad smells. A tiny shock jolted up his spine, before subsiding. The Gym Teacher blinked, and then realized he couldn't feel the electricity at this end of the bleachers. No vibrations. And then he felt ridiculous. Lucky, foolish, and a little bit embarrassed. Clearly his body was by no means the most direct path for the charge to take back to the ground. If Jordan had been facing a trained and competent lightning user, getting wet would have meant death, for even the most hardy of earth elementalists. However in his current untrained state, this student was unable to provide sufficient will to overcome the natural laws of his element. It had merely been an unpleasant coincidence, then, that Jordan had almost been overcome by children without any training using the barest measures of their strength, in disorganized concert, had it not?

Standing silent in the rain, Jordan Manilow shivered, his mind roiling at the implications.
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay



The first attempt, a ball of wind, made Jordan laugh. The force itself was nothing to shake a stick at, but it was child's play for him to let his legs unfold and drop to the next bar down, allowing the compressed ball of air to pass harmlessly above him. The next attempt took him off-guard, when he felt the metal begin to buzz with electricity, but in a moment Jordan was back to his calm collected state. The boy down below using his powers was not particularly strong, and though Jordan felt the electricity running through him like last night's chili, he was very fortunate. As an Earth user, Jordan's resistance to electricity was much higher than normal, which made this enterprising student's tazer-like blasts feel like static from one of Catherine's fuzzy sweaters. Of course Jordan had to watch himself, because he knew more than well enough that there were a share of water users in his class...

The last attack, causing the metal to bend and warp underneath Jordan's fingers, he circumvented in an after-thought, launching himself up the last few rungs of the bleachers, breathing hard, until he could sit back on the edge, waving down at the class. Was this all this year's roster had to offer? Abysmal, the worst he'd seen so far... Of course, Jordan watched with keen interest all the students who weren't participating. He hoped some would add their efforts to their classmates. He wanted to be pushed to the limit by them, and in turn, cause them to extend themselves fully. That would be a fulfilling first class, in Manilow's eyes.

EDIT: Actually did the homework on electricity and grounding, and came up with a canon method of explaining Manny's reaction without changing its outcome. :)
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
*Jerks out of a drug-addled haze*

Yer good Sprigg.

*tumbles over into a heap, murmuring about convoluted means of creating comprehensive plot*

@Spriggs27
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Hey all, back for the New Year. Time to get back to the internet chores n' things. First off, the Gauntlet has been thrown. I eagerly await news of who shall take it up first! Second of all, I will be updating the activity list presently. So, look forward to an update on that shortly! Lastly, hope all had a grand Holiday season! I'm hoping to have a real banger this year, and you folks are a part of that.

WOO!

-Kalleth
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Jordan Manilow

9:05 AM



@RoccanIronclad@Rune_Alchemist@Awesomoman64@Old Amsterdam@Hammerman@Zelosse@Arya10108909@Crusader Lord



Jordan hung from the bleachers, blood rushing to his head, and watched in his inverted position, as students walked toward the track and field upside down along the sky. Some he noted called up to him or pointed him out, others decided to stretch and warm up, while yet more simply lazed about and waited to be told what to do, no doubt with much reluctance. Jordan took a deep breath and exhaled, his stretches seemed to have loosened him up sufficently. Every year this first class took more out of him, but it was certainly not too much for him by any stretch. It was however, a little dangerous, even after much practice. You never knew what a student might throw at you without prompting, especially the young untrained ones.

"Good morning students!" Jordan bellowed, his voice carrying all the way up to the Academy's Central building. "Now, some of you might be thinking that this is the part where I run you ragged. The part where I make you do drills until you can't stand up and you feel sorer than a heavyweight champ after a losing bout. Some of you may be thinking this is the part where we all stand round in a circle and play a little game where we all get to learn each other's names. Some of you may be thinking, shit, I hate gym class and I just want it to be over. Well, to that last group of people, I say congratulations! You can end gym class right this second. All you need to do, is get my distinguished feet to touch the ground. Then you can leave, go to your other classes, write a book, I don't care. Today, whoever is able to make me touch the ground shall earn the distinguished honour of ending the gym class early, and if none of you can accomplish it, I'm afraid to say that I've gotten Headmaster Hargor's approval to keep you all from attending your other classes, or even using your dorms. So my students, it might take one of you, or it might take all of you. Either way, class is in session, and I'm waiting!"

Naturally, that last part about Hargor stopping classes and blocking the dorms was a fiction, but a well-practiced one, and Jordan and yet to see a student call his bluff. Now Jordan stretched his fingers, clenched his legs, and gave one last deep breath before scanning the gathered class below. Invariably, after some time to take in what their teacher had declared, somebody would fire a testing shot of some kind. Jordan couldn't suppress a grin. His deeper thoughts from before fell away as he focused on playing the game as best he could.
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
As a note, I should be able to post Manilow tomorrow, or today.
In Closed 6 yrs ago Forum: Casual Roleplay
Zel, looks like the lightning's on the wall. Yui approved his sheet, and I do too.


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